Correction: Tribune’s KWGN is not for sale. Only KDVR is part of the sale of Local TV stations.

Denver’s Fox31 is for sale along with the Local LLC station group nationally, being sold by parent Oak Hill Capital Partners. Station staffers were told Thursday it’s business as usual during the sale. Local TV owns or operates 21 stations, including KDVR-KWGN Denver.

KDVR-KWGN General Manager Peter Malone, reached in New York, said he is fully expecting “to continue to progress intact” during the sale. This is the third sale he’s been through and typically they’ve taken seven months to a year to clear regulatory hurdles.

Libby Weaver, co-anchor at KDVR-Fox31 for almost 13 years, will leave the station at the end of the year or early in 2013.

Weaver has been half of the longest-lasting late news anchor team in Denver TV, along with Ron Zappolo, who previously announced his intention to step down.

Weaver who teamed for the 5 and 9 p.m. newscasts with veteran Denver anchor Zappolo, and has recently been co-anchor with Jeremy Hubbard on the early evening and late night newscasts, was not available for comment Tuesday. The station confirmed her departure without specifying the reason.

“We can confirm that Libby Weaver will be leaving KDVR sometime around the end of this year or early in January,” according to News Director Ed Kosowski. “Beyond that we cannot and will not discuss anything else at this time about Libby’s departure except to say that we will certainly miss her presence both on the air in our newscasts and in the newsroom.”

Joanne Ostrow has been watching TV since before "reality" required quotation marks. "Hill Street Blues" was life-changing. If Dickens, Twain or Agatha Christie were alive today, they'd be writing for television. And proud of it.